If You're Utopian, You're Never Satisfied.

The Idea That Hardware On Networks Should Just Be Caches For Movable Process Descriptions And The Processes Themselves Goes Back Quite A Ways. There's A Real Sense In Which Ms And Apple Never Understood Networking Or Operating Systems (or What Objects Really Are), And When They Decided To Beef Up Their Oss, They Went To (different) Very Old Bad Mainframe Models Of Os Design To Try To Adapt To Personal Computers.

Perl Is Another Example Of Filling A Tiny, Short-term Need, And Then Being A Real Problem In The Longer Term.

Computer Literacy Is A Contact With The Activity Of Computing Deep Enough To Make The Computational Equivalent Of Reading And Writing Fluent And Enjoyable. As In All The Arts, A Romance With The Material Must Be Well Under Way. If We Value The Lifelong Learning Of Arts And Letters As A Springboard For Personal And Societal Growth, Should Any Less Effort Be Spent To Make Computing A Part Of Our Lives?

To Get The Medium's Magic To Work For One's Aims Rather Than Against Them Is To Attain Literacy.

I Had The Fortune Or Misfortune To Learn How To Read Fluently Starting At The Age Of Three. So I Had Read Maybe 150 Books By The Time I Hit 1st Grade. And I Already Knew That The Teachers Were Lying To Me.